IFL Recommends for February 2024
This month’s recommendations include a documentary about Freedom House, America’s first EMT service composed of Black men and women recruited from the Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood; an interview with poet, best-selling author, and NAACP Image Award finalist...
IFL Recommends for January 2024
Welcome to 2024! We start the year off with recommendations that come from an educational consultant and language researcher, a political podcast, and two stories from the Library of Congress’s Bibliomania blog.
IFL Recommends December 2023
This month’s recommendation contains an article and a press release about the benefits of being multilingual and a podcast about the importance of listening to teachers’ voices.Laurie Speranzo Mathematics FellowLaurie says, “I am fortunate to be working this year in...
IFL Recommends November 2023
Hey everyone! We’re back for the 2023-2024 school year. This year we are kicking off with a cluster of IFL Recommends and in two weeks we will publish our first new article of the year.
This month’s recommendations include a “creepy” short story, a crime novel, and an article about an elementary school classroom. We hope you love them!
IFL Recommends 6/20/23
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IFL Recommends 6/13/23
This week’s recommendation is a video about how mathematics has been used to determine different ways of tuning musical instruments.
IFL Recommends 6/6/23
This week’s recommendation is an article from Edutopia about using pictures to help students make sense of math problems.
IFL Recommends 5/30/23
This week’s IFL Recommends comes from Laurie Speranzo, a math fellow at the IFL who lives in Boston and was recently singing the praises of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, the second-tallest educational building in the world.
IFL Recommends 5/23/23
This week’s recommendation is a compilation of some children’s summer reading programs, both free and for a cost, as well as some tips for doing your own program(s).
5/16/23 IFL Recommends
This week’s recommendation is a free, beginners’ OpenCourseWare computer science class from Harvard University.